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The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure — the total acreage burned — from last year’s fire siege, the worst year in California’s long history of wildfires. 2020 was a fire year of unforgettable and awful superlatives. In the new world of mega-fires, a series of wildfires exploded late in August with a barrage of lightning and fires that blazed for four months.  The 4.2 million acres burned last year is equivalent to the entire area of Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties combined. The state’s first gig...

California’s 2020 fire siege: Wildfires by the numbers JULIE CART The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure — the total acreage burned — from last year’s fire siege, the worst year in California’s long history of wildfires. 2020 was a fire year of unforgettable and awful superlatives. In the new world of mega-fires, a series of wildfires exploded late in August with a barrage of lightning and fires that blazed for four months.  The 4.2 million acres burned last year is equivalent to the entire area of Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara and Santa...

Share this article Share this article EUREKA, Calif., 22 de julio de 2021 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Después de una búsqueda de varios meses en cientos de acres cuadrados y miles de pies de altura, se seleccionó el árbol de Navidad del Capitolio de EE.UU. 2021 del Bosque Nacional Six Rivers: "Sugar Bear". Se seleccionaron seis árboles y se presentaron virtualmente al personal del Arquitecto del Capitolio, y cada árbol recibió nombres únicos relacionados con el animal del estado de California, el oso. Arbol de Navidad del Capitolio de EE.UU. 2021 del Bosque Nacional Six Rivers: ...

More than 2,100 US firefighters combat blaze in Oregon Sunday, 18 July 2021 6:53 AM   [ Last Update: Sunday, 18 July 2021 6:53 AM ] A firefighter out of California puts out hot spots on the Bootleg Fire north of Bly, Oregon on July 17, 2021. (Photo by AFP) With wildfires in the drought-hit western United States and Canada continuing to scorch vast areas, firefighting resources are being severely stretched, authorities said Saturday.  More than 2,100 firefighters were again struggling to contain the vast Bootleg Fire raging in southern Oregon, near the border with California. Some were ...

AFP via Getty Images Despite an "exhaustive investigation By Brisa Colon, CNN Despite an “exhaustive investigation,” the US Forest Service announced Friday the cause of the largest single fire in California’s recorded history is undetermined. The Creek Fire, which burned more than 379,000 acres in the mountains of Fresno and Madera counties for months last year, destroyed more than 850 structures and spawned two firenados amid the state’s worst fire season on record. Lightning is the most probable cause of the wildfire, but authorities aren’t ruling out arson or “smoking activitie...